Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in support of State Senator Chris Larson’s (D. WI) U.S. Senate campaign:
Ron Johnson is one of the WORST senators. An apologist for Jan 6 insurrectionists -- and for Putin interfering in our elections.
A bold progressive just stepped up to run against Johnson in 2022: State Senator Chris Larson. Can you chip in $3 to Larson's campaign now to help a progressive flip this seat, expand our Senate majority, and end the filibuster?
Late last week, MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan told Chris Hayes, "When I saw Putin speak about January 6, I thought, 'Wow, the President of Russia is doing his best impression of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin!'"
In reaction, Chris Larson called out Johnson as a "Trump/Putin puppet" on Twitter. Previously, when Johnson said he didn't feel threatened by the January 6 insurrectionists but would have felt threatened by BLM activists, Chris called him out for that.
Chris has a long history of activism. Back in 2011, long before Texas legislators heroically left their chamber to stop right-wing Republicans from suppressing voting rights, Chris was a leader of the Wisconsin 14 -- senators who left the state to block then-Governor Scott Walker from attacking workers and democracy.
At the time, Chris was only 30 years old. But in the decade since -- including as Wisconsin's Senate Democratic leader -- he's consistently led on the front lines against right-wing extremists in Wisconsin who were an early warning of Trump's MAGA Q-anon supporters to come.
Chris supports a Green New Deal, Medicare For All, and ending the Jim Crow-era Senate filibuster! He's pro-union, pro-equality, pro-worker, and consistently gets elected with strong support from climate activists and young people.
We are proud to endorse Chris Larson's values and candidacy in this race, and ask you to chip in $3 to help a bold progressive kick Trump/Putin apologist Ron Johnson out of the Senate. Click here.
We are carefully monitoring this race. So far, a couple non-inspiring Democrats joined the field -- the exact type of candidates who lost critical Senate races in 2020. Chris will inspire people -- and if another bold progressive jumps in, we'll endorse them too. But this race is too important for us to sit on the sidelines now as boring candidates lose to Ron Johnson.
Every day, as we fight for democracy and jobs, we see the importance of expanding our Senate majority beyond 50 seats. Let's do it now in Wisconsin.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Adam Green and Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founders